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BAST-I-KUMAKCf— Lat. 27° 22' N.; Long. 55° 3' E.; Elev. 1,200'.
A ruined semi, 5f miles west of Pas Par Dalan, on the Bandar ’Abbas-
Lar road. Two cisterns (dry in March 1907). No population.—(BTfoorc
and CruicJcshank, 1907.)
BAST-I-PARIAB— Lat. 27° 41' N. ; Long. 54° 36' E. ; Elev. 2,300'.
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). in Laristan, 12| miles from Lar, on the road to Bandar
’Abbas. It stands on the precipitous bank of a dry water-course, which
runs round both its southern and its western face. The walls of the cara
vanserai, which is 30 yards square and contains 19 lower rooms, are of stone
and about 2 feet in thickness. Close by are 3 cisterns, all in good repair.
— (Butcher, A'pril 1888.)
BAST-I-PARIAB— Elev. 2,300'.
BATUNEH.— Lat. 27° 51' N. ; Long. 51° 52' E.; Elev.
A village on the coast of the Dashti district of Ears, 9 miles west of
Daiyir. It contains 50 houses of immigrants from Rung near Lingeh and
Bustanu in Shib Kuh, all Arabs and Sunnis ; they speak both Arabic and
Persian ; there is also a small, white-domed tomb on the hill behind the
village. The inhabitants grow dates and corn. There are 15 fishing-boats
and 2,000 date palms.— (Constable — Stiffe—Persian Gulf Pilot — Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
BATANEH— Lat. 28° 2' 30" N.; Long. 51° 56' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears in the Bardistan valley, 12 miles
north-north-west of Bardistan village. It contains 20 houses. —(Foreign
Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
BAULI—Name of a tribe in Luristan (q.v.).
BAUNAF— Lat. 31° 36' N. ; Long. 54° 15' E-
A village containing 150 houses, 25 miles south of Yazd.— (Vaughan.)
BAY AIN— Lat. 27° 41' N. ; Long. 54° 22' E.
A small village, 3 miles south-west of Lar, on the road to Ivaz and
Husainabad.— and Cruickshank, 1907.)
BAYANAT— Lat. 30° 27' N. ; Long. 53° 42' E.; Elev.
A village in Ears, situated northwards of Shiraz, and 29 miles south-south
west of Deh Bid. It is the third stage from Yazd on the road to Shiraz,
and though nearly 100 miles south-west of the former the Bavanat moun
tains are visible from near it. The intervening desert is crossed by caravans.
It possesses many gardens and abundance of fruit, specially raisins, which,
it exports in addition to a great quantity of wheat, walnuts, fruit of the
sinjid, and jauz-dghand, i.e., flesh of pared pears or peaches rolled round
walnuts. The few Europeans who have visited this place did so in search
of khar-i-Girdu, i.e., the excrescences of the walnut tree ; some trees that
had been matured were purchased for 400 krdns. Good wooden spoons
are manufactured as also fantastically-shaped padlocks, but the locks
except for being shaped like birds, and sometimes requiring two distinct
keys to open them, do not differ from ordinary Persian locks. The people
call themselves Turks and have the appearance of such : the language